Vengeance Of The Dancing Gods by Jack L. Chalker

Author:Jack L. Chalker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy - General, Science Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction - General, General, Non-Classifiable
ISBN: 9780345315496
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1985-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

I might add, he’s effectively destabilized the religion we set up and, as such, turned the Council into acting on its own to preserve their domains and interests. He has made deals with a sufficient number of them to keep them pretty much out of the fray and he’s already beginning to capitalize on it. He is coming out of the northwest of Hyperboreya with a legion of the living dead who are his slavish and unkillable troops. They’re not invincible, but every casualty they inflict on the defenders becomes another of their own number. A few wizards are nervous about him, but he’s working entirely within the Rules and playing very good politics with his equals. Nobody knows how strong he really is, so they are loathe to challenge him and quick to make deals. Of course, he doesn’t know how strong he is, either, or he would have waited for me.”

Macore sighed. “So it’s all falling apart again. Get rid of one Dark Baron and you get a Master of the Dead.”

“Well, it’s pretty much the rules of the game, isn’t it? Evil loses battles but never wars. I’ve been going crazy trying to organize and devise a defensive strategy against him. It’s been difficult because he is as good a politician as sorcerer, and because he seems to have armies of the dead planted all over the place. We brought up massed dragons and stopped them at the River of Sighs, but another force of the same simply came marching out of the Misty Mountains to the south. No place is safe from him, but he stays in the background and relies on his anonymity to protect him from a direct challenge. It’s frustrating.”

“But I can’t see how he could connect with this Earth business,” Marge put in. “I mean, if Earth goes, he goes, too, right? So why this?”

“I doubt if he really understands the stakes on Earth. He made a deal, that’s what. He would stop you from interfering in our enemy’s affairs, and in exchange he was given access to ancient spells so foul and yet so powerful he could march on Husaquahr. If he were truly convinced that Armageddon was the result of the Baron’s actions, I don’t think he would have gone along, but they’ve conned him as he cons others here. I am fascinated by the fact that you found him familiar, though. Marge.”

“We’ve met I know that. Years ago. Maybe when I first came here. That’s all I can say for sure.”

“Hmmm… although I’ve never met him in this incarnation, I, too, have the feeling that I know him and he knows me, perhaps well,” the wizard commented. “He certainly knows a good deal of how I think and he knows almost precisely the strengths and limits of my power. There is something familiar about the signature on his spells, but it is remote and hidden from me. It’s been too long, and the level of sophistication is quite a bit higher.

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